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Financial crisis and scale, need for capturing user created content and participation value, promotion of globally integrated enterprise, discovery and use of expertise across an ecosystem positioned Web as a delivery platform.

For enabling the organization using the Web as a delivery platform, IBM provides the following Lotus software:

• WebSphere Portal - Providing a platform for the latest Web 2.0 technologies and social networking advances.
• Lotus Foundations - A complete software appliance that provides the essential software a business needs to focus on running the business, not managing computer systems.
• Lotus “Bluehouse” - A software as a service offering (SaaS), Bluehouse is designed for companies with as few as 5 employees and with limited or no in-house technical resources.

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If you are also not able to find the menus that you are used to, here are the menu mappings between the previous versions and Notes 8.

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The demonstration in this link shows visually how you can open another user’s Lotus Notes mail.

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The Learning Plug-In for IBM Lotus Notes is a sidebar plug-in that is used to view and filter learning materials inside your IBM Lotus Notes 8 client. By using the Learning Plug-In, you can access the following types of Lotus Notes 8 user training materials within your Notes 8 client:

• Task-based demonstrations
• Videos
• Tutorials
• Product tour
• Web seminars
• Self-paced e-learning
• Reference Cards

You can download and install the Learning Plug-In for IBM Lotus Notes from here.

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This video briefly shows you how you can move from MS Outlook to IBM Lotus Notes 8. Besides that, the document in this link is a reference card showing the migration steps.

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With Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging, the following selected features are provided to clients:

• E-mail, calendaring and scheduling with 1 GB mailbox per user.
• IBM Lotus Quickr® Personal Edition with 50 MB storage.
• Antivirus and antispam services.
• Enterprise-class servers, network, storage and firewall in an IBM data center.
• Security-rich, reliable and highly available infrastructure.
• Integrated platform, process automations and innovative management tools.

IBM’s 24×7 Lotus Notes expertise, predictable costs, tools, talent, shortened implementation time, enhanced security, availability and performance, help confront spam and virus threats coupled with the above features are the main reason why clients select hosted messaging.

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IBM extended Lotus Notes, to new markets through delivery as a hosted service, Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging. It has been known that, IBM has been driving Lotus Notes and Domino into new markets such as iPhone users, social networking and unified communications clients recently. Hosted Messaging is the next step of this approach.

Using a hosting service, it’ll not be needed to purchase, house or supply energy to new hardware needed to run the software. Customers of Lotus Notes messaging software can instead focus their IT resources on other strategic business projects.

It has also been stated that priced starting at less than $10 per user per month, new IBM Lotus Notes Hosted Messaging is designed primarily for companies with 1,000 to 10,000 employees.

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IBM marketing innovator Sandy Carter introduces ANGELS framework in the article which can be accessed here. ANGELS is a start-to-finish framework for choosing the right Web 2.0 marketing tools—and using them to maximize revenue and profitability. ANGELS approach is a step-by-step framework for success:

• Analyze and ensure strong market understanding
• Nail the relevant strategy and story
• Go to Market Plan
• Energize the channel and community
• Leads and revenue
• Scream!!! Don’t forget the Technology!

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IBM announced Lotus Bluehouse Beta. Briefly, “Bluehouse” is the place where businesses come to get work done. “Bluehouse” makes it easy if you need to prepare for tomorrow’s meeting, to host one today or want to collect feedback from yesterday’s call.

Following are the highlighted features from Lotus Bluehouse:

• Hosting online sales or project meeting
• Networking with potential clients and business partners which are outside the firewall of your enterprise
• Uploading files and sharing files with others
• Starting a group project
• Creating surveys
• Turning feedback into dynamic charts or graphs

From the following demo links, you can get a feeling about Lotus Bluehouse:

• Get to know “Bluehouse”
• Run an effective sales meeting
• Group and share files in a collection
• Using activities for a project meeting
• Working with a group
• Connecting with a business contact

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Web 2.0 technology brings interaction among individuals, information and data to drive new opportunities and to foster communities. IBM has Web 2.0 toolsets for the “Connect, Build, Deploy, Manage” steps of Web 2.0 based application delivery which includes collaboration and productivity tools that use these technologies to help businesses deliver applications more flexibly and cost effectively.

Lotus Forms is used in the “Build” step of Web 2.0 based application delivery to provide electronic forms that help organizations of to accelerate process automation efforts, increase efficiencies, reduce operational costs by facilitating data integration with existing IT systems and making it easy to extend business processes to customers with web-based electronic forms.

Lotus Expeditor and WebSphere Portal are utilized in the “Deploy” step of the application delivery. Lotus Expeditor is a desktop integration framework that enables and accelerates client integration while WebSphere Portal software has services that aggregate applications and content as role-based applications

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